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London: Folio Society, 2011, Numbered Limited Edition SIGNED by Niroot Puttapipat. Folio Society hand bound quarter vellum edition, spine blocked in 22-carat gold, vellum corner tips, top edge gilt, wide brown ribbon marker. The limited edition etching hand printed under the artist s supervision by the Pauper s Press, Hoxton, London. Folio Society facsimile limited to 1,000 numbered copies, limitation page and end sheets printed letterpress by the Logan Press. Hand written number 13 of 1000 Limited Edition copies with a new etching hand-printed, SIGNED and numbered by the artist to the front. With 17 mounted colour plates with brown illustrated borders and highlights. Presented in a brown cloth bound solander box with red leather label to the spine. 282pp. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 14 inches tall (slipcase), 13 inches tall (book). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition pictorial decoration to the front board. Page edges very good condition gilt top edge. Slipcase very good condition minor marks, gilt titles to red leather label. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition. End papers very good condition. Title very good condition. Pages very good condition. Binding very good condition attractive. See photos.

About Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the 'travellers' tales' literary subgenre.